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Originally Posted by Shauk
wait what? games can't use dual cores under xp?
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XP even supports quad core technology.
Maybe if you bought XP home a long time ago and haven't upgraded it to SP1 or SP2?
I don't even know. Some games implement dual core technology poorly and split processing unevenly across the two cores but that's universal across all the operating platforms.
I don't like vista, because it's not an upgrade that's worth $200. I don't even think it's worth $50. When I upgraded (after the service pack which corrected many of the incompatibility errors etc) I found that everything I did or played took longer than on XP. I had to reduce quality and resolution on my games, autocad and maya chugged along, i had drawing lag in photoshop, even browsing slowed. I have a good system and none of these should have been issues. This was even after the hard drive indexing, which was ridiculous to me and felt like it shortened the life of my drives.
So I switched back. I'm now hearing about a modular system for the next version of windows that will have me pay out extra for the programs and architecture I take for granted as part of a regular operating system. It's likely i'll move to a linux or open source OS when I do decide to upgrade, because i'm frustrated with microsoft and I don't want to give them more of my money.